Technology transfer maximisation under different diffusion methods

I have been trying to write a research paper in the last two weeks on the post topic. The direction taken left the paper looking a bit odd, like nothing else published elsewhere, so I have shelved it. Marginal gloom descends.

Some of the ideas are not bad. Technology spread is compared for a profit maximising owner able to change their behaviour at every time period, to a company that always undertakes FDI, to a company that always licenses, to a company that doesn't change its methods once it has initially committed, to an owner that wants to spread the technology and has a limited budget to do so, and a few other types of owner. The recipients are profit maximisers. The resulting optimising equations for the owner are cubics and quadratics. The basic model is both simpler and wider than many existing models.

I am taking a different direction with the technology papers now, and will post anything of interest here.